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phillennium • today at 3:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I've read Neuromancer and liked it back in 2002, as a teenager. And whenever rumors about an adaptation came up, I was curious.

So in that 42-year journey I was along for 24 years.

I think the adaptation will probably be neither a masterpiece nor a flop. So... kinda anticlimactic: wait for 24 years and get some "middle ground" that will be mostly forgotten in the end.

But still, it's interesting for me to see it. Because Gibson dreamed the cyberpunk, and we kinda live it. AI is one of the main characters in Neuromancer. And AI is what we talk about all day nowadays. Of course, there's a world of difference between his vision and our reality... But the more interesting it is to compare.


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stronglikedan • today at 4:00 PM

> I think the adaptation will probably be neither a masterpiece nor a flop.

Ender's Game comes to mind. Not a masterpiece, but severely underrated.